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A
Bit About
About Me
& My
Philosophy
Okay, let's get to the "been there, done that" stuff first.
I am a lifelong entrepreneur. I started my first company after college (UCLA)
- a celebrity photography business called "Gotcha." I then began a marketing and advertising firm with a partner in Marin County, CA. We ran that for 9 years serving clients like AutoDesk, Birkenstock and Continental Airlines. It was fun for a while, but...
My body broke under the stress of the ad business and, from my hospital bed, I decided it was time for a major life change. I jumped off the side of my life for a year. I lived in the woods of Colorado
& then I was a beach bum on the island of Grenada. I also sat in on quite a few medical school classes there.
When I came back to the States, I continued my education in NLP (Neuro
Linguistic Programming - is also the foundation of Tony Robbins'
work), and got a Master's certification. I began my coaching practice in
1992. NLP has given me an invaluable set of tools to help my clients get
beyond old beliefs & on to new ways of thinking & acting that work better
for them.
While I have worked with clients in the US Army, Oppenheimer, Oracle, FedEx and other big corporations,
for the past five years I've focused on working with
ADD-ish entrepreneurs
(most are ADD-ish!). I've spent many years building the skills &
strategies to help those of us whose brains are wired differently.
It's my life's work.
I am also a passionate motivational speaker.
I get excited sharing
ideas that open up minds!
For fun, I'm a singer-songwriter, kayaker,
traveler, photographer, eclectic reader, meditator, weight lifter, improvisational comedienne, dancing fool, writer and traveler.
I am also a lifelong learner - keyboards, guitar, techie toys, giving/taking seminars, alternative medicine, mind research, NLP,
&
a whole lot of other cool stuff!
Mini-Philosophy
I believe that I can help just about anyone make virtually any change
they want in their life - as long as they have a strong desire and are willing to take the actions to make it so.
I know that we all learn more when we're having fun. I've seen that when we can laugh at our own stuff, we gain a new and clearer
perspective that gets us unstuck and ready to learn even better ways of going
beyond whatever was holding us back. I get my clients to laugh as often as possible!
I think Adult ADD is a great gift and
that with some tweaking with what we say to ourselves, some strategies
to overcome challenges with organization & focus, and ways to develop our unique gifts - we can change the world in ways that in-the-box thinkers never
will. To paraphrase Einstein, "You can't solve a problem at the level
of thinking that created it." And have we got some bigtime problems to
solve!
I believe in much more than this, of
course. You can follow my flow in my
5 minute clips, "Good Thinking! Success Strategies for ADD-ish Adults" which will help you think differently, live smarter and have a lot more fun!
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